[A history of nursing in Fukuoka Prefecture]

Nurses who had learned the Nightingale's nursing method in the middle of the Meiji Era systematized nursing in Japan. In 1884, modern nursing began in Tokyo. In Kyushu, nursing education started in Fukuoka Hospital ten years later. At that time, the teaching of nurses was done by individual doctors who taught them all the necessary subjects. This study identifies the ethical criteria which the educators of that time had as the goal of nursing education.